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That's been my experience as well. EHR providers have no incentive to exchange data with each other and will do everything in their power not to. There are regi
by wefarrell 11y ago
That's been my experience as well. EHR providers have no incentive to exchange data with each other and will do everything in their power not to. There are regional efforts towards interoperability but there needs to be more political will to mandate cooperation.
- dikaiosune 11y agoWhat about HL7? When I last worked with an EHR system (2? years ago), implementing HL7-based interop with other providers was all the rage so that they could eliminate fax machines when transferring patient records.
- psaintla 11y agoHL7 is a massive farce. It is an impossibly large standard that's difficult to understand and rarely used for interoperability.
- epmatsw 11y agoEh, Epic and Cerner interface fine, and offer HL7 interfaces, and Epic in particular bends over backwards to do what their customers want for implementations. My impression was that hospitals are (understandably) reluctant to allow their direct competitors direct access to information they've collected.
- psaintla 11y agoI wouldn't go that far with Epic. They always have some unadvertised module they try to push on hospitals the minute they want to interface with a third party.
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